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many pyrenean friends of mine think i know more about the operations than i do of the cia. people argue over this endlessly what we do know is that the early 1953 president eisenhower inherited a difficult situation from president truman and gave the order to plan an operation inside iran to bring down prime minister mohsen def and to replace him with someone believed to be more in accordance with our interest. >> so did the prime minister get replaced and did the schulman get through on at that time? >> it's a fascinating story. the shah was reluctant to move. he was presented with a plan to replace the prime minister with a military man. he didn't want to see a military man thinking he might be jumping out into the fire. he was persuaded. there were stories the way he was persuaded she was told this is going ahead with or without you. if most of death would be replaced if it goes with you so much the better and if it does not. he was persuaded to go along with it. >> professor, when you look up at the crisis, what kind of attitude did that helped develop towards the west?
many pyrenean friends of mine think i know more about the operations than i do of the cia. people argue over this endlessly what we do know is that the early 1953 president eisenhower inherited a difficult situation from president truman and gave the order to plan an operation inside iran to bring down prime minister mohsen def and to replace him with someone believed to be more in accordance with our interest. >> so did the prime minister get replaced and did the schulman get through on...
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and, in fact, what they later found out through the fbi and cia, some of those gems had even showed up in gem shops in arizona. so he was selling these gems to finance his whole, you know, this whole campaign. and, again, going back to that this is a remote valley, captain kyle walton and others on the team knew tactically that this plan was flawed. but even though they knew that it was flawed, knew that there was incredible danger landing the helicopter at the bottom of the valley and that they would have to climb to the top of the valley to get to this compound where they knew the bad guy was surrounded by some of the best mercenaries, so to speak, in the world, these really trained mercenaries who had been fighting the soviets and, for, you know, for that ten years during the 1980s, they still went, and they still went to carry out this mission. and i think, kevin, you can describe a little bit about what happened once they landed. >> okay. so they take off from a base on the border, jalalabad, and they fly into this valley. and there's some concern at this point about the plane. th
and, in fact, what they later found out through the fbi and cia, some of those gems had even showed up in gem shops in arizona. so he was selling these gems to finance his whole, you know, this whole campaign. and, again, going back to that this is a remote valley, captain kyle walton and others on the team knew tactically that this plan was flawed. but even though they knew that it was flawed, knew that there was incredible danger landing the helicopter at the bottom of the valley and that...
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the former cia director went on and gave an interview about it. if anyone is interested in my opinion and knowing what didn't happen just look at that interview. there is no way of the former director of the cia, he was current when that happened would tell you anything about what did happen. i believe he would tell you the opposite. he was speaking without you and me and iran. >> we have to wrap it up now and thank you. [applause] >> now on booktv nancy gibbs and michael duffy report on relationships between sitting american presidents and predecessors. the world's most exclusive fraternity is often move by shifting elitists as one supporter is the next week's critic. this is about an hour. >> good evening, everyone. for those who have not had a chance to meet i have the honor of being executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation. it is a pleasure to welcome all of you here. in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance
the former cia director went on and gave an interview about it. if anyone is interested in my opinion and knowing what didn't happen just look at that interview. there is no way of the former director of the cia, he was current when that happened would tell you anything about what did happen. i believe he would tell you the opposite. he was speaking without you and me and iran. >> we have to wrap it up now and thank you. [applause] >> now on booktv nancy gibbs and michael duffy...
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so the state department is calls the cia, the cia calls george kennan. this all happened very quickly. what do we do? and so the first thing that was done, prepared a memoir written in english. actually, she spoke english, wrote english well, and the cia had that, and they got it to george, and he read it very quickly and pronounced it legitimate. and so it was then involved deeply in the operations of getting her from -- i guess they had already gotten her from india to switzerland. george met her for the first time in switzerland, entering the country clandestinely, and he said the police are very good sneaking you in and out of their country. and then george negotiated the contract and his book, which became 20 letters to a friend. she was millionaire before she ever set foot on american soil thanks to george kennan and the advance he negotiated for her. but she was also, of course, a media sensation when she landed and the reporters were hounding her, but the kgb was after her as well. so there was a point where she actually needed sanctuary. she nee
so the state department is calls the cia, the cia calls george kennan. this all happened very quickly. what do we do? and so the first thing that was done, prepared a memoir written in english. actually, she spoke english, wrote english well, and the cia had that, and they got it to george, and he read it very quickly and pronounced it legitimate. and so it was then involved deeply in the operations of getting her from -- i guess they had already gotten her from india to switzerland. george met...
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they started having scrutiny over the cia, and put a whole structure in place. and it was really hard. it was hard to get into the american state, it was hard to construct a better monetary and trade system and come to grips with changing economic reality in the world. and then we stopped. we might've stopped because it was hard in the fires were burning our feet and we got tired. were we might've stopped because ronald reagan came along and told us we didn't have to do that. it was morning in america again, and everything would be fine, and just to shoot right to the end. ronald reagan -- and i am in the middle of reassessing ronald reagan, okay? when i see restart led and bruce stein and larry corbett and other members of the administration, i realized let's not make a cartoon out of the reagan administration. there are many things from which we can learn. unfortunately, what the successor candidate for president under ronald reagan was don't make jimmy carter's mistakes and say that our energy diction is a problem. just keep smiling and say we can do everythi
they started having scrutiny over the cia, and put a whole structure in place. and it was really hard. it was hard to get into the american state, it was hard to construct a better monetary and trade system and come to grips with changing economic reality in the world. and then we stopped. we might've stopped because it was hard in the fires were burning our feet and we got tired. were we might've stopped because ronald reagan came along and told us we didn't have to do that. it was morning in...
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. >> did this cia have to read your book? . . >> now, tranter argues that partisan politics are heard in the united states and discusses a range of issues including the economy and help air, political debate here trained to speak for about 50 minutes. [no audio] catherine crier joined court tvs anchors in november 1999. she served as executive editor, legal news special in addition to hosting catherine crier live, a fast-paced daily series, covering the days front page stories, catherine crier, a texas bred independent with a spirited passion for justice released several books of high-profile cases, such as the scots a different case and the susan polk murder case. catherine has hosted episodes of court tv signature primetime series, this is done and numerous other specials such as the jury speaks -- the scapegoat jury speaks with dominic dunne, osama bin laden on trial and safe passage coed voices from the middle-school part of the network's public affairs initiative choices and consequences. prior to joining court tv, cathe
. >> did this cia have to read your book? . . >> now, tranter argues that partisan politics are heard in the united states and discusses a range of issues including the economy and help air, political debate here trained to speak for about 50 minutes. [no audio] catherine crier joined court tvs anchors in november 1999. she served as executive editor, legal news special in addition to hosting catherine crier live, a fast-paced daily series, covering the days front page stories,...
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cia calls george kennan. this all happened very quickly. what do we do? and so the first thing that was done, they have prepared a memoir which was written in english and she wrote english well. they got it to george and he read it very quick he and announced it legitimate. involved deeply in the operations and i guess they had gotten her from india to switzerland and the swiss were hosting her. george matter for the first time in switzerland in the country clandestinely. and then george negotiated which became 20 letters to a friend. she was a millionaire before she stepped foot on american soil and he negotiated for her. but she was also of course a media sensation. she landed and reporters were hounding her but the kgb was after her as well. it was to the point where she needed time so george arranged to hide her in east berlin. this is east berlin, pennsylvania just where his farm is. and that is where she was for a couple of months in the summer of 1967. she later moved to princeton and lived there for s
cia calls george kennan. this all happened very quickly. what do we do? and so the first thing that was done, they have prepared a memoir which was written in english and she wrote english well. they got it to george and he read it very quick he and announced it legitimate. involved deeply in the operations and i guess they had gotten her from india to switzerland and the swiss were hosting her. george matter for the first time in switzerland in the country clandestinely. and then george...
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finance his men by the smuggling operation and in fact what they later found out through the fbi and cia, he had showed up in gym shop in arizona and he was selling it to finance his whole campaign. and again, going back, captain kyle and the members knew tactically that this plan was flawed. even though they knew that it was flawed and knew they were in critical danger flying the helicopter into the bottom of the valley and then they would have to climb this mountain to get to this compound which was surrounded by you know, some of the best mercenaries in the world, really trained and have been fighting for that 10 years during the 1980s. they came in and they still went to carry out the mission. maybe you can describe a little bit about what happened once they landed. >> okay, so they take off from a base on the border in jalalabad and fly into this valley. there is some concern at this point. there is concern about the weather and there's a certain window they have before the cloud cover comes in so they have to work quickly as well. but if you can imagine landing in a helicopter and
finance his men by the smuggling operation and in fact what they later found out through the fbi and cia, he had showed up in gym shop in arizona and he was selling it to finance his whole campaign. and again, going back, captain kyle and the members knew tactically that this plan was flawed. even though they knew that it was flawed and knew they were in critical danger flying the helicopter into the bottom of the valley and then they would have to climb this mountain to get to this compound...
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he had been part of the oss precursor to the cia during world war ii and always had these intelligence connections. and he hired her and even though there was this age gap that had been married a couple times already, but she didn't fully know i think the full story of that. he became a mentor as well as an employer and he too showed her one of her first jobs for him was editing some papers, captured by soviet prisoners who had showed the extent of the gulags, that sort of thing. another ovation at this totalitarianism. and so, he introduced her to all his -- it must've been a swirl of grandeur and excitement for a jumbo man. at this time, hubert humphrey was senator, living on washington in her as her husband was called, was in not swirl and introduced her to that swirl. and you know, i think it must've been hugely exciting. was still in love with him. it was exactly the sort of thing that a woman like "political jer values is likely to do. it cost her father's doubt it pain you think. and she kind of after a year or two working there and falling into this impetuous relationship, she
he had been part of the oss precursor to the cia during world war ii and always had these intelligence connections. and he hired her and even though there was this age gap that had been married a couple times already, but she didn't fully know i think the full story of that. he became a mentor as well as an employer and he too showed her one of her first jobs for him was editing some papers, captured by soviet prisoners who had showed the extent of the gulags, that sort of thing. another...
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agent named larry johnson, who told me that, you know, cia could learn a lot from carl rove, and the way he has deniability in all operations he does, he's both very, very visible. he is something like a 70% name recognition in the united states. that's up there with justin bieber. [laughter] we don't really know what he does. most people don't, and when you go back over history and look at the things that are starting to unfold in the election, he has deniability at a one level after another. to me, the story became interesting in a way because i think most people thought carl rove was finished in 2008 when the bush presidency started to come to an end. he had been forced out of the white house in 2007. he was the prime target in the two biggest scandals of the bush era like the united states attorney scandal. bush left the white house with a 22% approval rating, the lowest in the history of the united states, and even top republican his brand was tainted forever, no unwilliamed to be a bush -- no one wanted to be a bush republican or work with carl rove. truth is he was back workin
agent named larry johnson, who told me that, you know, cia could learn a lot from carl rove, and the way he has deniability in all operations he does, he's both very, very visible. he is something like a 70% name recognition in the united states. that's up there with justin bieber. [laughter] we don't really know what he does. most people don't, and when you go back over history and look at the things that are starting to unfold in the election, he has deniability at a one level after another....
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not many years after that there was a cia report that estimated the had 20 years ago. i wonder if you feel the same way and what your time line is. >> i advertise my book here superpower i have a chapter called demographic winter it's about the demographic winter of the entire civilization and in the ideal with russia which has lost 10 million people since the liberation of you will of 1989 with 10 million russians to hit 140 million on scheduled to lose 45 million more by 2015. what is going on is with the demographers called hyper bortolotti dying at the rate the germans are going to lose eight to 10 million people. each knew italian generation is one-third smaller than the one before it. it is a utility rate of about 1.41. the japanese, 127 million will lose 25 million people. and in that chapter, i did something on israel. now, israel is more complex because you have the orthodox there. you have their rates like the buchanans the neighbor has 11 and he has seven. so, what you have in israel is about 6 million jewish citizens and 1.5 palestinians and 2.5 on the west
not many years after that there was a cia report that estimated the had 20 years ago. i wonder if you feel the same way and what your time line is. >> i advertise my book here superpower i have a chapter called demographic winter it's about the demographic winter of the entire civilization and in the ideal with russia which has lost 10 million people since the liberation of you will of 1989 with 10 million russians to hit 140 million on scheduled to lose 45 million more by 2015. what is...
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forgone conclusion it was a matter of demographics and not too many years after that there was the lead cia report that estimated they had 20 years to go. i wonder if you still feel the same way and what your timeline is? >> well, i will tell you i will advertise my book here. i have a chapter called demographic winter, the demographic winter of the entire western civilization and in that idea was for example russia which has lost 10 million people since the liberation of the will in 1989. 10 million russians. they run scheduled to lose 25 million more by 2050. what's going on is what the demographers called hypermortality. is dying at enormous rates and the germans will lose eight to 10 million people. each new italian generation is one third smaller than the one before it. it is a fertility rate of 1.41. the japanese 127 million people and in that chapter i did something on israel. israel is more complex because you have a cultural orthodox there. they have death rates like that the canons and the families i grew up with. out of the 50s even, so what you haven't israel is you have about 6
forgone conclusion it was a matter of demographics and not too many years after that there was the lead cia report that estimated they had 20 years to go. i wonder if you still feel the same way and what your timeline is? >> well, i will tell you i will advertise my book here. i have a chapter called demographic winter, the demographic winter of the entire western civilization and in that idea was for example russia which has lost 10 million people since the liberation of the will in...
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and the cia calls george kennan and this all happened very quickly. what do we do? and so, the first thing that was done, she had prepared a memoir that was written in english. she spoke good english well and the cia had that and got it to george and he read it very quickly in the pronounced at legitimate, and so within the operations of getting her from i guess they had already gotten her from india to switzerland the swiss were posting her there, george met her for the first time in switzerland entering the country clandestine sneaking in and out of the country. and then george negotiated the publishing contract in force for what became the 20 letters to a friend. she was a millionaire before she ever set foot on american soil and the advance that he negotiated for but was also of course a media sensation. she landed in the reporters for hounding her with the kgb was after as well. so there was a point where she actually needed sanctuary, she needed to be hidden somewhere at some georgia arranged to hide her in east berlin. this is east berlin penns
and the cia calls george kennan and this all happened very quickly. what do we do? and so, the first thing that was done, she had prepared a memoir that was written in english. she spoke good english well and the cia had that and got it to george and he read it very quickly in the pronounced at legitimate, and so within the operations of getting her from i guess they had already gotten her from india to switzerland the swiss were posting her there, george met her for the first time in...
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in a sense gave jeane a private tutorial about communism and you know being part of the oss in the cia, he knew lot of the inside people, you know ranging si k to you know, former communists whom he brought home at the dinner tabl and jeane would cook these wonderful french meals and they talk about what it was like to live under communism. so s brohtse eoatn kirk also pushed her into the democratic party activism. she had the democratic party in her dna. she later on said i was one of thmoicrin w meul say something is the father of her children. it was that important to her. kirk had alwaykind of pushed her. she was real relucnt. there was a fear of yinghere chen tt rtftngvi deatwa t a mother. a pushed her towards the public arena and he had gotten her to write speeches for humphrey. in his 1960 pesidential caaignnd a6ce idalccfu mp,avin968 which was, again, she felt it was his chance, humphrey's chance and she felt subverted by the things that happened both nsi and ouide e von in erpthing her and she was involved with the humphrey apparatus to such a degree that you know, when onumy'
in a sense gave jeane a private tutorial about communism and you know being part of the oss in the cia, he knew lot of the inside people, you know ranging si k to you know, former communists whom he brought home at the dinner tabl and jeane would cook these wonderful french meals and they talk about what it was like to live under communism. so s brohtse eoatn kirk also pushed her into the democratic party activism. she had the democratic party in her dna. she later on said i was one of...
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minnesota politics and kicked the communist lyf ins heemar an h b part of the oss, precuresser to the cia, during world war ii, so he had that experience, and always had these intelligence conctions, a s omhi i he hired her, and even though there was this age gaap -- age gap and he had been married a couple times himself already, which she didn't fully know, i hee mrell afull story ofha oye, too, showed her one of her first jobs for him was editing papers, cauring buy the nazis from soviet prisoners theyaden h t een o t lahaort of thing. another kind of vision of this totalitarianism, so he introduced thor all this and must hav b a srl dend etor a young woman, getting to see all these -- by that time hubert humphreyas senator, living in washington and kirk, as h hentdu that srl.ed, was t and i think it must have been hugely excited and she was bowled over by him, really, and fell in love with him, and it wasxactly the sort of thing that aom le , aleikyo do. it was the contrary experience of her life and caused her a lot doubt and pain, i thinknd tw wnghe and falling into this relationship
minnesota politics and kicked the communist lyf ins heemar an h b part of the oss, precuresser to the cia, during world war ii, so he had that experience, and always had these intelligence conctions, a s omhi i he hired her, and even though there was this age gaap -- age gap and he had been married a couple times himself already, which she didn't fully know, i hee mrell afull story ofha oye, too, showed her one of her first jobs for him was editing papers, cauring buy the nazis from soviet...
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the marshall plan, he brought the national security act that created the defense department and the cia and other things. he successfully made a transition from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy x he made the momentous decision to read about how he made that decision when all of his advisers said you can't save berlin, you're going to have to give up on berlin, and he made the decision for the berlin airlift. absolutely heroic. all that i just described happened in his first term. his second term was quite mediocre. he didn't manage to maintain what i call longevity of success which is a frothy record a frothy performance through eight full years or whatever time you have. he had a couple of notable achievements, nato was in his second term. the korean war under macarthur was in the second term, but he had a sputtering economy, on again/off again throughout the entire four years. he ended up with a stalemated war in korea that he couldn't win and couldn't get out of which is political poison for any sitting president. there were a series of scandals involving his presidential cro
the marshall plan, he brought the national security act that created the defense department and the cia and other things. he successfully made a transition from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy x he made the momentous decision to read about how he made that decision when all of his advisers said you can't save berlin, you're going to have to give up on berlin, and he made the decision for the berlin airlift. absolutely heroic. all that i just described happened in his first term. his...
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, and it was cia money, and... c-span: how'd you find out? >> guest: it was made public in the press. i don't know how they found out somebody leaked, obviously. but i didn't inquire and i didn't care, really. c-span: what was your reaction at the time? >> guest: i was annoyed. i didn't want to work for the cia. if i had known there was cia money involved, i would not have taken that particular job. c-span: why would they want to fund the encounter magazine? >> guest: now that's why an--there were rumors that there was some government money behind it, but the question occurred to me that just occurred to you: why on earth would they want to fund a magazine that stephen spender and i were editing and which--whose general political outlook was liberal, not at all conservative? this was, after all, in the eisenhower years. mr. dulles, i believe, was then head of the cia. it didn't make any sense to me. but it turned out, in fact, there was a liberal group within the cia that thought it very important to have an intell
, and it was cia money, and... c-span: how'd you find out? >> guest: it was made public in the press. i don't know how they found out somebody leaked, obviously. but i didn't inquire and i didn't care, really. c-span: what was your reaction at the time? >> guest: i was annoyed. i didn't want to work for the cia. if i had known there was cia money involved, i would not have taken that particular job. c-span: why would they want to fund the encounter magazine? >> guest: now...
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the cia was just too bureaucratic for me. so i wanted to break out and do something more on gennaro. i get involved in the financial revolution, started being a managing editor of a news article, the inflation survival letters in the 1970's which is now called personal finance, a much more establishment name. my own newsletters forecast and strategies. seven robbery and was elected and it has been a great ride. i consider myself a survivor in many ways. i maintained my contacts and the cia because i think there are a good source for information. we're a global economy, and the cia does everything. they've done research on virtually everything. >> we invited you want book tv to talk about the making of modern economics, the lives and ideas of right thinkers. >> cannot in 2001. it took me about five years to sit down and actually right. probably a lifetime of learning. and then the second edition came out in 2009 right after the financial crisis. we felt it needed to be updated after that event because my final chapter is dr. s
the cia was just too bureaucratic for me. so i wanted to break out and do something more on gennaro. i get involved in the financial revolution, started being a managing editor of a news article, the inflation survival letters in the 1970's which is now called personal finance, a much more establishment name. my own newsletters forecast and strategies. seven robbery and was elected and it has been a great ride. i consider myself a survivor in many ways. i maintained my contacts and the cia...
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that is where we first began developing drones, the cia. many people think i'm part of the cia. i'm not. that is where we developed drones. very interesting, in 1960 they could go mocks three. this is astounding that the still holds the record for speed if you believe that it still holds the record for speed the government tells you it holds the record for speed. 2,300 miles-per-hour, drones in 1962 out in the nevada desert. that is some very serious advanced technology. people often ask me what i think is going on now, what kind of drones' they're coming up with,i can only imagine. i know that to be on the panel with these two interesting authors, you know, all of our ideas kind of meat and merge in this idea of secrets, surveillance. for me to write about really the military and has been nuys, elements of surveillance, it's fascinating that the private sector and the military sector, people see now how they merge with a look at drone stay. of course this goes back, you know, to the 1950's when it all began out there in area 51. i love answering questions on this. >> i wanted t
that is where we first began developing drones, the cia. many people think i'm part of the cia. i'm not. that is where we developed drones. very interesting, in 1960 they could go mocks three. this is astounding that the still holds the record for speed if you believe that it still holds the record for speed the government tells you it holds the record for speed. 2,300 miles-per-hour, drones in 1962 out in the nevada desert. that is some very serious advanced technology. people often ask me...
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first of all, when then how did you serve and the cia? >> will list the wording for the fbi as a special agents. i worked with them for a little less than but years in the transferred from the fbi and director of the ca. the u.s.s. cole bombing. the assassination. i was exposed to working with cia officers overseas. value of the cultural linguistic abilities. but transferred. i was involved. obviously it was a successful operation. >> hello were you with the cia? >> celeste the five years. >> the sum total of your new book is the rise, fall, and redemption. >> sparrow couldn't. being assigned cases that seasoned agents. i was given a lot of missions that ended to a published that were extremely high alleges to the missions. i was accused kohl of falsely accused causes sickle of being a supporter of terrorism. eventually i was exonerated. and here today telling the story. >> phyllis very quickly about that accusation? >> well, the fbi thought he was passing intelligence. of use the that was not true. the evidence was little secret, and it
first of all, when then how did you serve and the cia? >> will list the wording for the fbi as a special agents. i worked with them for a little less than but years in the transferred from the fbi and director of the ca. the u.s.s. cole bombing. the assassination. i was exposed to working with cia officers overseas. value of the cultural linguistic abilities. but transferred. i was involved. obviously it was a successful operation. >> hello were you with the cia? >> celeste...
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profiled on "the daily beast" she worked for the cia. iraq, spike camp, she learned the art but had a falling out they thought she was mentally unstable. as a result she no longer works for the cia but she started to treat about her experience. on twitter you'll see her talking about secret stuff how is it a disgruntled employee tweet on society and not be disclosed? anything wikileaks anything about the 9/11 inside job? there you go. one more example. conspiracies are dark place. what is somebody said lead stage a coup. a mention this because it is the theme. the book just came out. it was all the sophisticated trade and it is a fascinating story about a general. back in his day he you was the:. somebody knocked on the door it was the emissary from the military industrial complex. with a big checkbook they went to smedley butler said the npr is not working out to we want to rescue it. are you e and? i was thinking this is the conspiracy theorist what do you think smedley butler did? he went to the media. they're trying to bribe me. cong
profiled on "the daily beast" she worked for the cia. iraq, spike camp, she learned the art but had a falling out they thought she was mentally unstable. as a result she no longer works for the cia but she started to treat about her experience. on twitter you'll see her talking about secret stuff how is it a disgruntled employee tweet on society and not be disclosed? anything wikileaks anything about the 9/11 inside job? there you go. one more example. conspiracies are dark place....
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and i had another was a former cia agent who told me that you know, the cia could learn a lot from karl rove. in the way that he has deniability and all these operations that he does, he is very visible, he is something like 70% of name recognition in the united states, that is something that is up there with justin bieber. but we really don't know what he does. a lot of people don't. and when you go back over his history and look at the things that are starting to unfold in the election, he has one level after another. to me, the story became interesting because i think most people thought karl rove was finished in 2008 when the bush presidency started coming to an end. he had been forced out of the white house in 2007. he was the prime target in the two biggest scandals in the bush era. the valerie mcclain affair and the approval rating is lowest in the united states. even top republican strategists, like ed rollins, said that his brain was changed forever. no one would ever want to work with karl rove. the fact of the matter is that he was back working again within a matter of weeks.
and i had another was a former cia agent who told me that you know, the cia could learn a lot from karl rove. in the way that he has deniability and all these operations that he does, he is very visible, he is something like 70% of name recognition in the united states, that is something that is up there with justin bieber. but we really don't know what he does. a lot of people don't. and when you go back over his history and look at the things that are starting to unfold in the election, he...
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i think the cia people were much more sophisticated. the people was dhaka and of walking talking figures out of the old fbi peace and war radio drama which i listened to as a child. >> was there a lot of fear in the circle but i'm? of the fbi etc? >> no, we were amused by it. we intuitive that they were clunky. the fear was felt in the deep south where some people who were also involved in the student nonviolent and coordinating committee were living under a terrorist state and people were being killed, and they have legitimate fear. they were targets, not of the fbi that of the plan and other entities. the fbi was just standing by taking notes while organizers were being beaten. but no, we were pretty spotty and one might say foolhardy but in any case, we were rather full of our own figure. >> we've been talking with professor todd gitlin and this is his latest book available as an ebook occupied nation the roots the spirit and the nation of rocket will street. he's also the author of the 60s coming years of hoping. thank you, professo
i think the cia people were much more sophisticated. the people was dhaka and of walking talking figures out of the old fbi peace and war radio drama which i listened to as a child. >> was there a lot of fear in the circle but i'm? of the fbi etc? >> no, we were amused by it. we intuitive that they were clunky. the fear was felt in the deep south where some people who were also involved in the student nonviolent and coordinating committee were living under a terrorist state and...
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the cia thing is actually different part of what jesse is suing over. i believe that one side. his first explosion, the fact that a lot of people, not just in the offices, but many people felt that this was a double slump. this was the initial shaking and a much bigger blast that came between seven and 11 seconds later. this was something that the geologists thought might have been pointing to a double exposure. then they explain why they felt i was mistaken. i have spoken to a tremendous number of explosive experts. the explanation that was given to me is that what happened when you have a big explosion like that is it creates a vacuum. a few seconds after the blast, you get something called a negative blast with ersatz backend and that was what impacted the building hardest. much harder than the initial explosion. that was the effect across so many people to die. yes? >> you mentioned the explosive devices. [inaudible question] [inaudible question] >> all i can say on that subject, both terry nichols and timothy mcveigh, they gave detailed description of the composition of th
the cia thing is actually different part of what jesse is suing over. i believe that one side. his first explosion, the fact that a lot of people, not just in the offices, but many people felt that this was a double slump. this was the initial shaking and a much bigger blast that came between seven and 11 seconds later. this was something that the geologists thought might have been pointing to a double exposure. then they explain why they felt i was mistaken. i have spoken to a tremendous...
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that's the cia's drunk program in pakistan. so how central is afghanistan road to american national security? so yes, we did do some good there but with all that good work, the price in american lives and dollars, and i don't think so. >> last call comes from mike in syracuse, new york. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is, what do
that's the cia's drunk program in pakistan. so how central is afghanistan road to american national security? so yes, we did do some good there but with all that good work, the price in american lives and dollars, and i don't think so. >> last call comes from mike in syracuse, new york. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is, what do
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particularly, your cia background. >> i worked at cia and the national intelligence council in washington for 35 years. >> in what capacity? >> ultimately, became the national intelligence officer for latin america, which is a three or four star military equivalent. i was a civilian, of course, but it's a substantial position. i had responsibility for all of latin america and cuba on the analytic side of intelligence. >> what does that mean? >> well, i was notysç a field operative. i did not -- i did not go out and conduct espionage. i did not meet foreign agents. i was basically, most of the career at headquarters, in virginia, i wrote national intelligence estimates, quite a few on cuba over the years, and on many of the other latin american countries. >> before we get into fidel castro and his regime, how did you get interested in that work? >> i was a student at georgetown university where i later taught for 25 years as an adjunct. teaches here now at the university of miami, but i was attracted to the foreign service school at georgetown. it was a time when a lot of us, my generatio
particularly, your cia background. >> i worked at cia and the national intelligence council in washington for 35 years. >> in what capacity? >> ultimately, became the national intelligence officer for latin america, which is a three or four star military equivalent. i was a civilian, of course, but it's a substantial position. i had responsibility for all of latin america and cuba on the analytic side of intelligence. >> what does that mean? >> well, i was notysç...
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he went on to be director of the cia and defense department against people who want to do what he would have done when he was at the house budget committee. [laughter] but he does have a lot of perspective, and i talked to him for the book in the office about the pentagon which is cool. it has a shrine there to the capture of bin laden. and he told me that in the twelve years he was out of office when he was teaching at an substitute in california he said i used to tell the students we are either governed by leadership or by crisis. and i always thought if leadership wasn't there, that ultimately you rely on crisis to drive decisions. and last few years, he said, chuckling he likes to laugh at his own jokes. my biggest concern that crisis doesn't seem to drive decisions either. there goes my theory. on there i would like to end. i'm happy to take your questions. i want to recognize briefly my wife. anybody who has written a book nows the worst thing is for the spouse who has to put up with someone who can't sleep at night and always crabby. there a question here and i've been asked if p
he went on to be director of the cia and defense department against people who want to do what he would have done when he was at the house budget committee. [laughter] but he does have a lot of perspective, and i talked to him for the book in the office about the pentagon which is cool. it has a shrine there to the capture of bin laden. and he told me that in the twelve years he was out of office when he was teaching at an substitute in california he said i used to tell the students we are...
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and so, i read the most amazing thing recently where the cia said they're so excited that more and more household appliances that have energy savings actually docketed the internet, and so someone said we can use your dish washer to spy on you. there's -- you know, we do have certain protections in place about government use, that actually are more stringent than data aggregators' use of our information. but orbit we're all carrying around smartphones with video capability, microphone capability, i think about pennsylvania where a wealthy school district gave laptops to all high school students, and without telling them of their parents that the web cam could be enabled from the school, it turned out the computer department at the school, the technology people, were taking photos through the web cam without people's knowledge. so they took tens of thousands of photos of students, and where do students have their laptops open in their in their bedroom, coming out of the shower, they're half dressed. so one thing people don't take into consideration what are the surveillance capability of
and so, i read the most amazing thing recently where the cia said they're so excited that more and more household appliances that have energy savings actually docketed the internet, and so someone said we can use your dish washer to spy on you. there's -- you know, we do have certain protections in place about government use, that actually are more stringent than data aggregators' use of our information. but orbit we're all carrying around smartphones with video capability, microphone...
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so literally your chance of getting access to the cia documents is much higher than it is to any sort of congressional private correspondence or phone records are meeting records because you can apply to the cia, and in my tonight for 20 years, but you will eventually get access to top-secret documents. congress is exempt. i think congress should not be exempt from the freedom of information act. certainly we don't want people using it in a political way to avert congressional offices, but they're needs to be greater transparency into who they're talking to. the same thing with two rights amendments. we don't know who discloses it. the florida legislature, when an amendment is introduced, you have to sign an ride out the name of the person who wrote the piece of legislation. so if it was a lobbyist and handed it to you to introduce an amendment, you know that because it's written on the amendment. i'm a big believer in transparency because i believe the republicans about self governance, and i think we can trust the american people to make wise decisions. i agree that there is a lot m
so literally your chance of getting access to the cia documents is much higher than it is to any sort of congressional private correspondence or phone records are meeting records because you can apply to the cia, and in my tonight for 20 years, but you will eventually get access to top-secret documents. congress is exempt. i think congress should not be exempt from the freedom of information act. certainly we don't want people using it in a political way to avert congressional offices, but...
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bissell of the cia that the u2 makar pressure may be undertaken provided it is carried out prior to may 1. that memo and less is written to cover general goodpaster -- suggests that the u2 might not have been authorized by a president president eisenhower but in fact would would have bea rogue operation directed by the director of central intelligence. if anyone can draw on that. thank you very very much. i appreciate it. >> general goodpaster did not go out on anything. the president approved the u2 flied. there is no question the president approved it as a president regretted approving it but he approved it because the cia insisted on it and he allowed them to have one last flied. of course it was shot down by the soviet union and eyes and are always regretted it. to eisenhower's great credit he did not blame this on mr. dulles or mr. bissell. he took personal responsibility for it even though khrushchev gave him ample opportunity to place the blame on someone else. eisenhower refused to do that and he took his own responsibility for it and he did it -- >> next question comes from her
bissell of the cia that the u2 makar pressure may be undertaken provided it is carried out prior to may 1. that memo and less is written to cover general goodpaster -- suggests that the u2 might not have been authorized by a president president eisenhower but in fact would would have bea rogue operation directed by the director of central intelligence. if anyone can draw on that. thank you very very much. i appreciate it. >> general goodpaster did not go out on anything. the president...
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he listened uncritically to the cia. the crews in guatemala and iran were successful, but the consequences, especially in iran, were disastrous. he approved the u-2 flight of gary powers on the eve of the summit, a dreadful mistake, and which i to his credit, pull full responsibility for. ize p hour, like brent was a product of the peacetime army. i'm joking t myself about grant. two weeks ago, i spoked a the grant presidential library, but if you can believe it, the u.s. presidential library is of mississippi state university. [laughter] it's in starkville, mississippi, and the president said, well, vicksberg put grand on the map. why shouldn't it be there? [laughter] that's showing how times have changed. ike was born in texas, october 14 #th, 1890. grew up with five brothers in kansas. very modest circumstances. his mother, ida, was strong,çó outgoing, on the mistake outlook on life. his father, david, was withdrawn and a difficult person. both were deeply religious, evangelical. the family read the bible every morn
he listened uncritically to the cia. the crews in guatemala and iran were successful, but the consequences, especially in iran, were disastrous. he approved the u-2 flight of gary powers on the eve of the summit, a dreadful mistake, and which i to his credit, pull full responsibility for. ize p hour, like brent was a product of the peacetime army. i'm joking t myself about grant. two weeks ago, i spoked a the grant presidential library, but if you can believe it, the u.s. presidential library...
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one of the first people he contacts is a cia operave who, hi ho la pi a heshing to get a job in the administration as george bush senior when he became president, he didn't get that job. stmendcoul't go and stmeusllart t p heclistless. he did know what to do. he showed no interest in getting a job. he showed a interest in leaving the united states. he fell in with a lawr whose job is to represent memberof heye hosl or o anvelley sp th a dece to send him thinking he could marry one of the young women there, get agreeing card ad geta jo and gea li andet othei waarmbthae t ungn p weaponry and talk about a showdown with hebeeoc wa of hrmlsita he and mcveigh had an associate. i think he probably knows who else might involved in the bombing. he wouldot go there wh me, fortunely. tftth ongn na tercin d hef fb veataclyt coy g he wanted to go and grill himn berlin and find out everything you need to he was overruled. inhedsanen i t hene i ke uhofsoll tiify gep rtd f investigation. thwhole mr. of strassmeir was left hanging. he reminds that bi of the broader osama binladen faily r wt hud' tireoto venttaad e
one of the first people he contacts is a cia operave who, hi ho la pi a heshing to get a job in the administration as george bush senior when he became president, he didn't get that job. stmendcoul't go and stmeusllart t p heclistless. he did know what to do. he showed no interest in getting a job. he showed a interest in leaving the united states. he fell in with a lawr whose job is to represent memberof heye hosl or o anvelley sp th a dece to send him thinking he could marry one of the young...
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doing the outreach to muslim brotherhood and other islamists groups bringing them inspect the fbi, cia, white house. so the infull traition has been going on for quite awhile. it's serious business. we need a president who is going to be able to take this on and not worry about the political correctness. the reason -- one the huge reasons we're in the mess because president bush and president obama for slightly different reasons, the political correctness aspect has driven a lot of it. we're doing muslim voted reach. it's not a war against islam. we need a president and leadership here who can identify who is the enemy, cho who is the threat how we're going to deal with it. bill oh o rely asked mr. president is the muslim brotherhood a threat to the united states? they are a sworn enemy of the united states. there's a lot of talk about how they renounced violence. that's a temporary measure until they get power. watch what they do in egypt when they have power. if you're a christian in egypt you better your bags and get out now this is curtains for you. so when bill asked ron paul that
doing the outreach to muslim brotherhood and other islamists groups bringing them inspect the fbi, cia, white house. so the infull traition has been going on for quite awhile. it's serious business. we need a president who is going to be able to take this on and not worry about the political correctness. the reason -- one the huge reasons we're in the mess because president bush and president obama for slightly different reasons, the political correctness aspect has driven a lot of it. we're...
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the cia, previously told the meant there was a 60%-80% certainty the guy in the compound was bin laden. they have given the information to a separate team. they went to the intelligence and said, you know what? we think it is only 40%-62% chance. it got a lot of people in the room nurse wondering if they should go ahead. as joe biden has says publicly, he was against it as was bob gates. some people wanted a missile strike from the distance. a minority of the advisers in the room favor of the helicopter strike because everyone else thought it was too risky. the intelligence did not bear going through this. he said, i am going to do this. he said there is a 50/50 chance. one of his aides later said, people do not always see this and the president, but he is like the athlete that at the end of the game, he wants the ball with 20 seconds left in his one attack the half-court shot because he is confident and fears in that way. i think you'll see this on the campaign trail. he is a fierce and vigorous candidate. i think what he draws the line and puts up his dukes, he is released and it to
the cia, previously told the meant there was a 60%-80% certainty the guy in the compound was bin laden. they have given the information to a separate team. they went to the intelligence and said, you know what? we think it is only 40%-62% chance. it got a lot of people in the room nurse wondering if they should go ahead. as joe biden has says publicly, he was against it as was bob gates. some people wanted a missile strike from the distance. a minority of the advisers in the room favor of the...
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cia, to the national archives. this may not seem like a big deal to you. but it was a really big deal to me. because to get records from the immigration service and make a freedom of information request. to get from the archives is a much easier process. so i found out that pedro victor garcia's records were kept at the records office in kansas city. and i looked up on the internet, randomly, the archive who was in charge of the guy. and i called the archivist of them got her on the phone and answer the phone. and she said that i am so, so busy today. time is of the essence. so busy. she said i'm not going to be able to get to those records until after lunch. and i said oh, i think i can wait until after lunch. because she called me dock after lunch. she found the file that i was looking for and that she would be happy to overnight it to me. again, i was surprised. your top dollars at work. what arrived the next day was a package filled with documents. they were wonderful documents for researcher. handwritten certificate of birth and confirmation from cuba
cia, to the national archives. this may not seem like a big deal to you. but it was a really big deal to me. because to get records from the immigration service and make a freedom of information request. to get from the archives is a much easier process. so i found out that pedro victor garcia's records were kept at the records office in kansas city. and i looked up on the internet, randomly, the archive who was in charge of the guy. and i called the archivist of them got her on the phone and...
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the cia did a spectacular job. i think the people who were done , the greatest disservice, the intelligence agencies. because the politicians, one of the intelligence people i spoke to said if you want to understand what happened watch the movie. i can remember the name of it, but forest whitaker is playing in african ruler. he is given -- sorry? blasting a stunt. thank you. someone is telling him something and he doesn't act on it and did it in said that the person telling him was right. forest whitaker says, well, the problem was you didn't convince me. and that is really where the politicians were. they had tons of affirmation. they had more than an affirmation to know that a strike was coming. they had more than enough information to know that there were severe problems with the weapons of mass destruction argument. they had more than enough information to know that he was trapped in torre borah and how they could get him. the cia did not fail. the politicians did. and it is in the aftermath. the intelligence g
the cia did a spectacular job. i think the people who were done , the greatest disservice, the intelligence agencies. because the politicians, one of the intelligence people i spoke to said if you want to understand what happened watch the movie. i can remember the name of it, but forest whitaker is playing in african ruler. he is given -- sorry? blasting a stunt. thank you. someone is telling him something and he doesn't act on it and did it in said that the person telling him was right....
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the first distribution of lsd, um, if you want to be conspiratorial was in the haight ash bury by the cia to do an experimental test on what the effect would be on young people and whether it offered an alternative to political revolt according to a cia type. [laughter] i will leave it there, but thank you for that addition. [laughter] [applause] >> so apec, bob scheer, any -- >> first of all, i want to thank bob for bringing up the richness of the culture then, and in my own political experience, the port huron statement was not the pivotal document as it was in yours. it still remains very important especially how the largest political organization of the '60s in many ways, the large student organization of the '60s was empowered by it. what bob said, i won't try to duplicate it, it was very rich. the thing about the statement that still maintains, i think, is we live in the time of the matrix, you know, the movie. and someone has to rip the matrix open, you know? and whether it's a lot of individual activity or collective activity, there is life beyond that. and the way society is orga
the first distribution of lsd, um, if you want to be conspiratorial was in the haight ash bury by the cia to do an experimental test on what the effect would be on young people and whether it offered an alternative to political revolt according to a cia type. [laughter] i will leave it there, but thank you for that addition. [laughter] [applause] >> so apec, bob scheer, any -- >> first of all, i want to thank bob for bringing up the richness of the culture then, and in my own...
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and now, of course, he went down to be the director the cia and the secretary of defense where he is busy defending the defense department against people who want to do what he wouldn't have done. but he does have a lot of perspective, and i talked to him for the book in his office at the pentagon, which is pretty cool, a little shrine there to the capture of osama bin laden. and he told me in a 12 years he was out of office when his teaching at an institute he set up a monterey, california, he said he used to tell the students that we are either governed by leadership or by crisis. and i always thought that if leadership wasn't there, that ultimately you rely on crisis to drive decisions. the last two years he said, chuckling, he likes to laugh at his own jokes, and the last two years he said my biggest concern is that crisis doesn't seem to drive decisions either. so there goes my theory. so on their i would like to end. i'm happy to take your questions. i want to recognize briefly my wife, anybody who's written a book knows the worst thing is for the spouse who has to put up with
and now, of course, he went down to be the director the cia and the secretary of defense where he is busy defending the defense department against people who want to do what he wouldn't have done. but he does have a lot of perspective, and i talked to him for the book in his office at the pentagon, which is pretty cool, a little shrine there to the capture of osama bin laden. and he told me in a 12 years he was out of office when his teaching at an institute he set up a monterey, california, he...
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and then handing down the cia agent. who just got the $90 million check from the p i knew he was not in a good mood because by my calculation he is no fool. that is $180 million short so he agrees to meet with me in a safe house. i say what is going on? how did they get away with this? he says bp pays bribes. first of all, i cannot just say that. in britain. all of this stuff they are hearing is prime-time british television here time -- jarret is no time but i sought front-page last week that the news. the top story is cold finger right out of "vultures' picnic." i said i cannot say this because there is no freedom of press or freedom of speech and no bill of rights. journalists have been fighting to get the first amendment freedoms speech freedom of the press i suggest they can borrowers because we don't use a. [laughter] i said come on. how do note? how much? he said at least one was $84 million. that was one. $84 million. he said nicely divided among seven oil companies. i said i cannot say that without getting sued.
and then handing down the cia agent. who just got the $90 million check from the p i knew he was not in a good mood because by my calculation he is no fool. that is $180 million short so he agrees to meet with me in a safe house. i say what is going on? how did they get away with this? he says bp pays bribes. first of all, i cannot just say that. in britain. all of this stuff they are hearing is prime-time british television here time -- jarret is no time but i sought front-page last week that...
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the cia thing is actually a different part of what they're suing over. i'll leave that to one side. a lot of people, not just in the office, but many people felt that there was an initial shaking and then a much bigger blast that came somewhere between seven and 11 seconds later. this was something that the geologists who first talked, but there might have been two explosions. his boss and the u.s. geological survey then explained why they felt that was mistaken. i have spoken to a tremendous number of explosive experts, and the explanation that was given to me is that what happens when you have a base closing like that is it creates a vacuum. a few seconds after the initial blast to get something called a negative light "to the blast wave whittier suspect in. that was what impact to the building hardest, much harder than the initial a explosion, and that is what should the columns and cost the pancaking defect that caused some many people to die. >> the explosive device. you know, mixing fuel with ammonium nitrate. after 24 minutes. that's all you have to set it off. >> all i can t
the cia thing is actually a different part of what they're suing over. i'll leave that to one side. a lot of people, not just in the office, but many people felt that there was an initial shaking and then a much bigger blast that came somewhere between seven and 11 seconds later. this was something that the geologists who first talked, but there might have been two explosions. his boss and the u.s. geological survey then explained why they felt that was mistaken. i have spoken to a tremendous...
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you go into the cia, uk these agents to come in and out of the house, gather information for you, and based on that information you act on that intelligence. well, we are running a very successive safe house in somalia. so successive that we get approved all over the city and get most of the people. one night i smelled horrible smell. but if you have never smelled human flesh rotting, it's not like roadkill, it's like horrible -- nauseating, it's like you just have to get away from it. when i smelled the smell, and i'm like, tomorrow we have to find out what that is and get rid of it -- the next morning, i come up on the roof, which is where we watch for our agents coming in and out, and protect them as they are coming in and leaving the safe house, and i didn't smell anything. and i thought, what is that? the next night i am up on the roof and i have the same smell again. and it's like, what is that? we put on our night vision goggles can we go down there and walk around the remainder of the courtyard, and we see this little boy sitting there where you see him on that bed. if you'll
you go into the cia, uk these agents to come in and out of the house, gather information for you, and based on that information you act on that intelligence. well, we are running a very successive safe house in somalia. so successive that we get approved all over the city and get most of the people. one night i smelled horrible smell. but if you have never smelled human flesh rotting, it's not like roadkill, it's like horrible -- nauseating, it's like you just have to get away from it. when i...
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go in with the cia, hades agents to come in and out of the house and gather information and based on that information you act on that intelligence and we were running a successful state house in somalia. so successful we were able to get food all over the city, get most of the bad people who were responsible for the civil war and starvation but one night when i was on the roof of the safe house i smell a horrible smell. i will not try to gross anybody out but if you have never smelled human flesh rodding, it is not like road kill. it is horrible. it is nauseating like you just got to get away from it. i smelled the smell and tomorrow we got to find out what that is and get rid of it. the next morning i came up on the roof which is where we watched our agents coming in and out and protect them as they are coming and beating the state house and i didn't smell anything. maybe it was somebody pulling something through the neighborhood or whatever. the next night i am on the roof and the same smell again and again. that night we put on night vision goggles and walked through the perimeter
go in with the cia, hades agents to come in and out of the house and gather information and based on that information you act on that intelligence and we were running a successful state house in somalia. so successful we were able to get food all over the city, get most of the bad people who were responsible for the civil war and starvation but one night when i was on the roof of the safe house i smell a horrible smell. i will not try to gross anybody out but if you have never smelled human...
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so he has a lot of enemies. >> he fired -- >> the cia, and he puts the cia operative under the ambassadors in various countries. so we see kennedy -- we all changed our mind after the cuban missile crisis. we see a new kennedy, visionary kennedy. >> only a couple more years to live. >> that's a tragedy. >> why do they call it dulles airport. i find that insulting. >> and reagan airport, and thurgood marshall in baltimore. >> now, obviously one of the last things that happens while kennedy is alive that has a very important impact on foreign policy is the assassination of the president of south vietnam. our client, our ally over there. and then two weeks later, i think it's two weeks later, kennedy is himself assassinated. and as you were saying before, this raised the questions that historians can argue about, keep arguing about, the next 50 years, would kennedy have wanted to -- would he have pulled american troops out of vietnam dish pull adviseers out, and you -- indications are that he would have and you cite various sources.that. just curious, just to challenge that a little bit, ther
so he has a lot of enemies. >> he fired -- >> the cia, and he puts the cia operative under the ambassadors in various countries. so we see kennedy -- we all changed our mind after the cuban missile crisis. we see a new kennedy, visionary kennedy. >> only a couple more years to live. >> that's a tragedy. >> why do they call it dulles airport. i find that insulting. >> and reagan airport, and thurgood marshall in baltimore. >> now, obviously one of the...